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| Russia's Gulag System Coming to an End |
| By telegraph.co.uk |
| Published: 02/24/2010 |
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Major initiatives in Russia are aimed at relieving the overcrowded jails, giving inmates more room and putting fewer people behind bars. It closely follows the introduction of house arrest for minor offenders. The bus rumbles slowly along a bumpy road past endless frozen fields, sleepy woods and occasional crooked houses covered with thick snow, until it parks outside a big white wall trimmed with barbed wire. Life has not changed much in the Kineshma Women’s Correction Colony No 3 since 1924, when it was transformed from a monastery into a prison. Just as in hundreds of other prisons in the most remote corners of Russia, murderers worked shoulder-to-shoulder with thieves; first-time prisoners slept in the same barracks with drug dealers, political prisoners and white-collar criminals – all in conditions that would not have been unfamiliar to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he described them in his famed account of life in a Soviet labour camp, The Gulag Archipelago. Read More. |
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